Electric car maker Tesla Motors has marked July 29 as the date for its Gigafactory Grand opening celebration. The official event will take place outside of Reno, Nevada on the night of July 29th. The company noted the date in the invitations sent out to Model S buyers who had won tickets to Grand opening by referring more than five other customers. It was confirmed by Tesla that a customer-oriented special event will be hold that night. More »

DiCaprio has been accused of hypocrisy as he preaches about saving the environment while continuing to fly around the world in private jets.

Leonardo DiCaprio, an actor and environmentalist, 41, took a private jet twice this week. He flew 8,000 miles to pick up an environmental award in New York by taking a private plane from Cannes, before flying straight back to France on another jet for a model-packed fund-raiser gala in Antibes, about eight miles from Cannes. More »

You can now sign up for the UK’s first public trial of self-driving cars. Gateway (Greenwich Automated Transport Environment) is offering the chance for people to take part in the UK’s first public driverless car trial. GATEway is an $11 million research project to see whether British people will take to driverless vehicles.